Meditation Mask

A meditation mask is essentially the same thing as what’s normally called an eye mask, or a sleep mask. The body is programmed to sleep when it’s dark outside.When it’s dark, your pineal gland is activated and your brain starts producing melatonin. Melatonin is the hormone that helps you to fall asleep and stay asleep.But, if you’re exposed to even just a little bit of sunlight or artificial light while you’re sleeping, the production of this important hormone is disrupted.The pineal gland is at the center of your mind’s eye, and triggers psychic sight as well as higher states of consciousness, intuition, and even enlightenment!And while the pineal gland is activated during the day by sunlight, it needs complete darkness to balance it out
Meditating in darkness is not new. Dark room meditation, and meditating in dark caves is a practice that has been used for thousands of years by sages and spiritual seekers.
In advanced practices in the Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism, “dark retreats” are used to stimulate the pineal gland and the natural production of DMT in the brain which causes expanded, transcendental states of consciousness, clear visions, and feelings of compassion and oneness. While a dark retreat usually involves complete darkness for days on end, just meditating in complete darkness can help you to tune into some of the benefits like letting go of your focus on the external, releasing attachment to your body, and letting go of your focus on the lines of time so you can really clear your mind, enter into the inner realms and experience your profound connection with the infinite, with the Divine, angels and the higher realms.
The complete darkness is also healthy for your pineal gland, which during meditation can begin to trigger the release of “dream chemicals” while you’re still awake. This means vivid visions, clairvoyance, and open-eyed travel into the higher realms during your waking meditations. Getting into deep states of meditation and fully activating your pineal gland with or without an eye-mask of course takes practice, but while you’re practicing meditation, an eye mask is something you may want to give a try!